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APL researchers are developing biological solutions to address some of the most pressing security challenges facing the nation, including supply chain reliance, industrial base improvement and eco-friendly waste removal.

APL will play an integral role in Johns Hopkins University’s new Climate Action and Sustainability Plan, which links efforts across the university to reduce emissions, address environmental footprints and pursue a healthier and more sustainable future.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched on Oct. 14, marking the start of its 5.5-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a world believed to potentially have the ingredients for life. Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in partnership with Johns Hopkins APL, the mission aims to unravel Europa’s secrets, hoping to make groundbreaking discoveries about the moon’s habitability and determine whether life could have emerged there.

Frontier-X, a breakthrough space communications technology developed at APL, was selected as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of the top 100 innovations pushing the boundaries of research and development. Frontier-X, which debuted in 2023, is capable of receiving and transmitting signals in multiple frequencies while using less space and power than a previous APL-developed system called Frontier Radio, which has been a critical component for Laboratory-built space missions that have studied the Sun and revealed the mysteries of Pluto.

A new Johns Hopkins APL-led study shows how machine learning can be used to predict the microstructures produced by a widely used additive manufacturing technique. This novel approach promises to dramatically reduce the cost of and time spent developing materials with tailored physical properties and will soon be implemented on a NASA-funded effort focused on creation of a digital twin.

A research team led by APL quantum information scientist Gregory Quiroz and partners at five institutions has earned a competitive quantum computing award from the Department of Energy to engineer potentially game-changing open-source software systems to propel scientific discoveries. The award builds on the team’s previous success designing software that combats errors hampering the performance of today’s quantum computers.

Three members of APL’s Space Exploration Sector have been named 2025 associate fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

The APL Women in Technology (AWiT) affinity group has earned the Gold Mission Recognition Award from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), marking the group’s fourth Gold honor and fifth consecutive Mission Award.

Sylvie DeLaHunt, an aerospace engineer and assistant supervisor of APL’s Discovery Program, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards — the Society of Women Engineers Emerging Advocate Award and the Women in Aerospace Initiative, Inspiration, Impact Award.